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This bill was heard four times in Senate Judiciary. The first time, it didn't even get a second on a motion for a vote. Amendments were allowed. Testimony was taken from at least 7 witnesses. Documents were presented to the committee members. Last Thursday, it was defeated in Senate Judiciary by a 5-2 vote. Then miraculously on Monday, the bill appeared on the agenda for the full Senate and the move was underway to snatch it from Judiciary and place it in Insurance and Commerce where Sens. Dismang and Rapert serve. Although the bill was never read over the desk, it nonetheless appeared on the agenda for Insurance and Commerce at 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Irrespective of how one feels about the bill, the process wreaks of political gladhanding and backroom dealing. The public's interest is not served by this type of government.

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys may have found an exit strategy for the growing controversy over player protests of racial inequities and Donald Trump's boorishness.

During their first year of desegregation at least 220 identifiable individuals from Central High’s near 2,000 enrollment showed their distaste for blacks in their school by stalking out of class, verbal abuse and/or physical assaults.

In which I fix an overlooked speaker in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's coverage of the observance of the 60th anniversary of Central High School desegregation

Diane Ravitch, a powerful voice against the billionaires trying to replace an egalitarian public education system with a fractured system of winners and losers segregated by race and income in private or privately operated schools, is giving a shoutout to Barclay Key of Little Rock for his review of Little Rock 60 years after the school crisis.